And this is why the Humane Pin was always a dumb idea. Apple, Google, Samsung, etc just needed to license some LL and diffusion models, then slap camera on all the headphones they make. Boom - instant humane like experience that’s faster, lighter, better looking, has better battery, etc etc.
No futuristic projector UI, but that thing was pretty busted anyway.
The big problem with the humane pin was that it was trying to do processing on the teeny tiny device and that used all it’s battery up in 15 mins generated 300 MW of heat.
Why not just use the phone in your pocket that’s actually designed for this kind of data processing?
Let’s take low power a tech gadget that gets good battery life and make it no longer have good battery life. What a great idea.
I doubt it’s for their fun headset since they’ve already abandoned it. I’m sure it’s going to be taking data for mapping or some other dumb bullshit with AI to describe what’s around you because you can’t fucking use your eyes.
Apple is so bad now. Ugh.
Abandoned it? What?
They’re just stopping development of the Pro to focus on the cheaper model so not necessarily abandoned
I was trying to call out that dude as an idiot without getting flamed for it. Seems like they’re doing a great job of flaming themselves though. I knew it wasn’t abandoned.
This doesn’t say that the Vision Pro is abandoned at all.
In fact, it implies the opposite. They have paused development of a Vision Pro 2 and are instead accelerating development of their planned lower-cost headset.
Seems to me that they will be having the Vision Pro (1st gen) as their supported flagship for longer than expected.
the tech giant has suspended work on the next Vision Pro and is looking for ways to cut costs for a cheaper model that could ship by the end of next year
It absolutely does not. Which non-shitty version of their currently absolutely shitty headset did you think was going to be the magic one that actually works the way describe and advertise? Lolol
Why do you think the headset doesn’t work as described or advertised?
Its price is the main complaint I’ve seen.
If you haven’t read or looked into this, it feels almost wrong to just boil it down for you.
Watch one of their stupid commercials about it, then see if it works at all the way they delict it working. It does not. All it is now is a wearable monitor for desktop viewing. Things it does not do while clearly depicted as such:
- gaming
- multimedia presentations
- stream to other headsets
- have ANY sharable user positioning data (local or GPS)
- collaboration with other headset owners
- wireless anything (it’s got a heavy ass battery pack)
- literally has NONE of the apps that it had depicted it had in some presentations at initial dev announcement (Netflix, YouTube…etc), though they are usable in browser
Anyway, you get the idea. There’s more, but why bother.
You can play steam games on the Vision Pro via a PC.
I like shitting on Apple as much as the next guy but the Vision Pro is an impressive piece of gear from an engineering perspective. Unfortunately, much like pretty much all VR headsets before it, it is suffering from a lack of an ecosystem.
All Apple changed is to pivot away from a focus on bleeding edge high end hardware in this new segment and instead grow a userbase by means of a cheaper base product (likely missing one or two bells and whistles). Developers don’t like to produce apps for platforms nobody will use, even if they get thrown some money to do so, because it is a poor long term investment. So Apple’s best shot at this is to get Vision devices onto as many heads as possible.
It absolutely does. I’m not sure why you’re trying to spread misinformation, but Apple clearly hasn’t dropped VR or the Vision Pro, and your own source proves it.
I never said that. WTF are you talking about?
Yes you did. If you can’t remember your own words, you can literally just scroll up.
I doubt it’s for their fun headset since they’ve already abandoned it.
Will the camera look inside of your ear?
iWax
Just to improve the spy ecosystem. Thanks
100% says it’s for gesture tracking and fully local
Only because everyone’s on edge, give it a few years and they’ll need “anonymised” data collection to “help improve their service”
Only because everyone’s on edge,
Wrong, everyone’s on chrome
I’ll see myself out, no need to shoot
Edge is what you use to download a browser.
The source code is closed so you cannot check Apple allegations only trust them and I don’t trust a company who puts a advertising ID on its phones
Do you trust Google? They do a LOT more than add a highly anonymous advertising ID you can reset at at will.
Marketing departments around the world collectively shat their pants when Apple did that change, it made tons of user tracking instantly completely useless.
Yeah well, they wouldn’t buy earphones with fucking cameras on them from Google either, now would they?
bringing “in-air” gestures to airpods
I can’t wait for stories of people brushing their hair away and the earbuds take that as a sign to raise the volume too high or something equally dumb to happen because they won’t be able to differentiate between a normal gesture meant for it and something not meant for it.
Gesture controls are cool, but what happens if they are too sensitive to movement or think gesture xyz is the same as gesture zyx?
I think the problem would be there aren’t sensitive enough and you have people walking around talking to themselves and waving their hands all around in frustration
If someone is wearing them you will never be truly certain if a bee is flying around them or not.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong here, but anyone feel like Apple is slowly having an…over-engineering problem?
The Apple Vision Pro, this… the new iPad Pros with FUCKING M4 CHIPS THAT ARE RUNNING IPADOS (???)
Like what is happening in their product development department lately?
They need to take their talent and apply it to stuff that could actually use it, rather than rehashing stuff that is already good. An Apple clothes dryer that actually can sense dry clothes and doesn’t break easily. An apple garage door that doesn’t suck. An Apple Ebike that lasts ages and is repairable (and gets people out of their cars).
I think an Apple bidet could be neat. A toaster, too.
That would probably disrupt the brand too much.
Did you just put “repairable” and “Apple” in the same sentence?
… I don’t know if I trust Siri to wash my asshole tbh
Something tells me you wouldn’t like the coming AssID feature either.
The bidet is under development. It is going to have cameras to confirm cleanliness using ai.
“If you can’t reinvent the wheel, then just make the wheel more expensive.” -Tim Apple, probably
Or they have a ton of M4 sized wheels and it’s easier just to use the same wheel for everything
I appreciate his proper name being used 🤗
